LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Lerwick lifeboat's service to the Russian fish factory ship Pionersk, recounted in the Winter 1994/5 issue of THE LIFEBOAT, has been recognised by the award of a Silver Medal for Gallantry to the coxswain, Hewitt Clark, and The Thanks of...

During a light northerly wind with heavy sea on the 16th March, it was reported that a fish- ing vessel between four and five miles to the north of Buckie had had her mast carried away. The crew of the Life-boat Maria Stephenson were...

HOLYHEAD, CEMAES and CEMLYN.— During a dense fog on the 9th February a large four-masted steamer, the Angloman, of and for Liverpool, with a general cargo and cattle, stranded on the West Flatters rocks. Fortunately the sea was smoothat the...

The Eight Hon. C. 1. Ritchie, M.P., President of the Board of Trade, said in the House of Commons on the 14th February, 1896 :— " It is not the intention of the Board of Trade to interfere with the excellent work of the Royal National...

DRUMMORE, WIGTOWNSHIRE. During the afternoon of the 14th November, 1938, the steamer Ben May sprang a leak and sank in East Tarbert Bay. Her crew of live took to the ship’s boat, and at the request of the coastguard, three men put out in a...

Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - On 17th March, 1966, the life-boat Dunleary II was to undertake a special exercise in connection with the opening of the Irish Boat Show at which the Institution was represented. Before the life-boat left her...

Fenlt, Co. Kerry.—At 3.30 on the after- noon of the 20th of October, 1954, a doctor telephoned that a fishing boat, with a crew of four, was on fire in inner Tralee Bay. At four o'clock the life-boat Peter and Sarah Blake put out in a...

ON the morning of 27th January, 1937, the Russian steamer Kingissepp, of Leningrad, was anchored about a mile off the harbour of Nairn on the Moray Firth. An easterly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. A boat was seen to put off from the...